Monday, March 23, 2009

Stephen Taylor's Blogging Tories: Still in love with Fox News.

It must be awkward being a war-loving, troop-loving, Fox News-loving Blogging Tory at the moment. When Fox so hilariously mocks Canadian soldiers at the same time four of them lose their lives in Afghanistan, I'd guess a number of Blogging Tories are grappling with who they adore more -- Fox or our troops. And, from a quick perusal of the BTs, it would appear that our troops are coming in a very distant second.

Currently, at the BT main page, we have one Blue Blogging Soapbox showing some serious annoyance and ... well, that's about it.

Stephen Taylor's Blogging Tories: Telling Canada's military that they can fuck right off because, hey, there's American right-wing news to worship. I'm sure it was a tough decision.

HERE'S A THOUGHT: Given Canada's Blogging Tories' constant whinging, griping, pissing and moaning about how "Lefties" don't support the troops, let's do a quick survey. In the comments section, leave a link to either a Canadian Leftie or a Canadian Rightie who's thoroughly miffed with Fox News' mocking of our military. At the end of the day, we'll tally the results and see who stood up more for our troops.

To make this fair, any posts published after this one simply to skew the survey won't count. This addendum is going up at 5:24 AM Monday morning so that's your cut-off point. And away you go. Let's give it a day and see who loves our troops more and is more inclined to defend them from mockery and ridicule, shall we? Yes, let's do that.

On the other side, there was a thread started at FD, but the response was so tepid that somebody started another thread a couple of days later, which is now 2 whole pages long. (If this had run on CNN , the thread would be 16 spittle-flecked pages long by now.) Some of the comments are very weird coming from people who supposedly support the troops.

The comments to Frum's post are truly pathetic. Also, if you follow the link at the top, it takes you to a selection of videos where Andy Levi (the "Red Eye" fake news announcer) has a story comparing Frum to a weasel doing something with a ball. It concludes by informing Frum that he can stop auditioning to be the "house conservative" of the NYT...

I must be straight forward by stating I fundamentally disagree with the content of the RedEye program. Was it offensive? Very. Misinformed? Absolutely. Asinine? You betcha! Worth getting into an over the top frothing at the mouth frenzy over? No.

This is Fox News we're talking about here. A late night "comedy" show that comes on at 3am EST. They must be loving the publicity they're getting on this. I had never even heard of the program before this, I can only imagine the ad revenue they're pulling from all the pissed off Canadians watching the clip.

However, very telling of Canadians in general... We care so much about our image that we will blow our wads over what a few jerkoff Americans say on uber-late night cable.

You might be right, Mr. Richards, but I think it goes without saying that if a "left-wing" media outlet had said the same things, the Wankersphere would have been absolutely aflame with outrage within hours. The screaming, howling, shrieking and general rending of clothing would have been heard on Mars.

CC - Agreed. However, I've never been a fan of sinking to the lowest common denominator. When you get upset and run shrieking into the night over unfunny self proclaimed shock-comedians, they always get the last laugh.